Africa marks 1 year of COVID-19 response, says continent expected to reach 100,000 deaths in coming days
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says Sunday marked one year since COVID-19 hit Africa. The UN health agency disclosed this in a video…
WHO treating the recent outbreak in the DRC as a global health emergency, expresses worry over 4 suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea
World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has expressed concern over the report of four suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea. Moeti in a Twitter message on…
China to continue collaboration with WHO on origin of coronavirus
China will maintain contacts with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in search of the origin of COVID-19, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. WHO experts arrived in…
WHO’s Wuhan probe ends as U.S.-China bickering over COVID-19 continues
China called on the United States on Wednesday to invite the World Health Organization to investigate origins of the COVID-19 outbreak there, as sparring over the pandemic continued after the…
COVID-19: WHO says work to identify origins of coronavirus points to a natural reservoir in bats not likely in Wuhan
The head of the World Health Organization, WHO led team probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that its investigation had uncovered new information but had not dramatically changed…
COVID-19: Nigeria replacing Pfizer vaccine with 16m doses of AstraZeneca a better option
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says Nigeria will stick with AstraZeneca vaccine based on its epidemiological and equity assessment done by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The…
COVID-19: Africa To Receive Nearly 90m COVAX Vaccines In February targeted at 3% population
Africa will receive nearly 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX in February 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) African region said on Thursday. “Africa has watched other regions start…
FG, UN host webinar for journalists on FSSD
The Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the United Nations system in Nigeria, will be hosting a webinar for journalists on the Nigeria National Food Systems Dialogue (FSSD) 2021….
WHO Team Visits Chinese Virus Lab in Wuhan
World Health Organization inspectors on Wednesday visited a laboratory in China’s Wuhan city at the heart of a controversial theory that it could have been the source of the coronavirus….
Council fellow says 2 weeks not much time for WHO experts as team in China visits provincial CDC
The World Health Organization-led, WHO, team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday visited the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China’s central region of Hubei, where…